ASAP Convective Weather Analysis & Nowcasting GOES Visible Data High-Density Winds Cloud-Top Cooling Thunderstorm Forecast Current Radar Reflectivity and Lightning Counts Radar/Lightning 45 Minutes Later Utilize GOES-12 Rapid Scan VIS and IR imagery to produce 30-60 min forecasts of new thunderstorm development and the first occurrence of cloud lightning for use in improving aviation safety through the ASAP initiative High-density satellite winds used to identify rapidly cooling cumulus cloud tops, which coincide with regions of dangerous convectively-induced turbulence